A'hoy hoy,

Seeker contacted me on Yahoo and inquired about my remark about this in the "Looking for a n00b to adopt" threat, so here's some further explanation.

During my counselling periods with teens (and on the side with friends sometimes) I decided to try and attempt hypnotically induced lucid dreaming. With doing so in the matter of counselling, the original motivation to divulge into the matter was simply to bring out the dreams. My belief and interpretation of dreams truly coincides along with Sigmund Freuds in the fact that dreams are an subconscious portrayal of an individuals life through associative scenes, items, etc. due to the emphasis of those certain significant elements (of course, others have many different beliefs upon dreaming, *Eyes Lucius*, but this is a very common one amongst psychoanalysists). Knowing this, and the fact that the elements portrayed within dreams typically show the significant and most important thougths at the current time, it helps to further understand an individuals problems and character.

When I thought about the matter of hypnotically inducing dreaming, it was simply to recall dreams, not to narrate a dream during sleep. In other words, I'd hypnotically suggest to the patient during sleep that they will remember their dream, and tell me all about it when they awake. Of course, it would usually take sometime and was usually only best to do so with an already exhausted patient (seeing as a patient with high blood rate and "excited" would take long to bring to a calm state to induce sleep upon. Of course, hypnotism is easier upon a calm and relaxed person, seeing as that is one of the most important factors in order to divulge into hypnotism).

With knowing the significant elements portrayed in a dream, it would be easier to understand an individual without their conscious clouding the true intentions and motivations behind their lifes decisions, etc. etc. I think it'd be a revolutionary method of lie detecting and seeking a suspect in a criminal case, but anyways...

After a few sessions of doing this, the idea of lucid dreaming came to mind and the results of it. Truly there was no other motivation behind inducing lucid dreaming other than seeing what the desires of the individual are; what you do in a lucid dream, is most likely what you desire most in reality. Besides that, with friends, it's simply to "do something cool."

Psychoanalysis as entertainment.. hm. Psychotainment.

Edit: I got carried away in the motivation behind doing such a thing so much and forgot about the method. (This is because I feel the motivation was truly more important..)

The method is quite simple if you are already familiar with hypnotism. It's simply reminding them to remember the dream or realise that they are dreaming. I'd post methods for hypnotism, but it's all conventional and I find that there are several methods in doing so. (Unless someone would truly like to hear it...)

I believe that explains it well. I look forward to feedback.

Hope I've been enlightening.